Re: The Joy Of Democracy

On 24 Oct 2024 19:19:03 GMT, rbowman wrote:

On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 05:35:00 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 12:53:13 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
 

If the people in those "large cities" do not receive food, what will
happen to them?

 
They won’t be able to make the machines that the farmers use to farm
their crops. There would be no electricity generation or fuel supply,
no manufacturing of farmhouses, no laying of roads for the trucks to
supply feed and fertilizer and seed and take away produce. Nobody to
pay the farmers. Nobody to educate them on how to grow their crops.
 
The whole system collapses.

 
Do you really think they manufacture tractors in New York City,
Baltimore, or LA?

Whether it’s tractors, parts to make the tractors, parts to make the
factories that make the tractors, schools to train the designers and
makers of the tractor parts, schools to train the farmers, schools to
train the designers and builders of the factories, schools to train the
trainers ... you don’t see these operating in the middle of some corn
field, do you?

Harvest the lumber needed to build houses?

Harvesting the raw lumber is the only part that happens in the forest. All
the rest of what they call the “value-add” happens in an urban factory
somewhere. Typically multiple stages, in multiple factories.

Drill wells for oil and gas? Mine coal?

Same thing. Once the raw material is obtained in situ, all the rest
requires the full complexity of urban infrastructure to deal with.